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Two years later this contention was echoed from the American
Presbyterian Church, and Dr. B. W. Dwight, having stigmatized
as "infidels" those who had not incorporated into their science
the literal acceptance of Hebrew legend, declared that
"chronology, ethnography, and etymology have all been tortured in
vain to make them contradict the Mosaic account of the early
history of man." Twelve years later this was re-echoed from
England. The Rev. Dr. Baylee, Principal of the College of St.
Aidan's, declared, "With regard to the varieties of human
language, the account of the confusion of tongues is receiving
daily confirmation by all the recent discoveries in comparative
philology." So, too, in the same year (1870), in the United
Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Dr. John Eadie, Professor of
Biblical Literature and Exegesis, declared, "Comparative
philology has established the miracle of Babel."
A skill in theology and casuistry so exquisite as to
contrive such assertions, and a faith so robust as to accept
them, certainly leave nothing to be desired.
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